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Winamp Deskband Changelog

What's new in Winamp Deskband 1.0 RC2

Aug 28, 2010
  • Added: Time elapsed/remaining/System time option in config
  • Added: Swedish, Russian and German language files (thanks for the translations!)
  • Added: Fully functional Fullscreen button in winamp 2.9+ (Toggles fullscreen while playing a video)
  • Added: An option to disable font shadows in the title scroller / time display
  • Fixed: The "track scroller/time display ugly white borders"-bug under Windows XP Using a visual style
  • Fixed: save and use font size for idle'while inactive' display
  • Fixed: Some paint bugs in the idle/'while in active' display
  • Fixed: Mediaplayer now properly supports more bookmark menu commands
  • Fixed: Some other weird bugs with the bookmarks menu
  • Fixed: Bugs concerning Switching from mediaplayer
  • Fixed: Position bar shows tooltip even when tooltips are disabled..
  • Fixed: Configuration -> preview tooltips didn't work properly
  • Fixed: Prevented OSD (Tooltips) from appearing in Task Manager
  • Fixed: Better Saving of button layout..
  • Fixed: Show Title broken for other deskbands
  • Fixed: Improved responsiveness of winamp 2.x/5.x buttons
  • Fixed: Rare bug when using custom Window XP Themes in configuration
  • Fixed: Rewrote the docking code
  • Changed: Make titlescroller start scrolling at beginning on new song
  • Changed: Tweaked vis a little
  • Changed: Drastically reduced memory footprint.
  • Changed: Removed the default skin from the dll. It is now provided as a bitmap in the skins directory
  • Changed: Moved manual button to bottom of configuration to make it easier to find
  • Numerous small tweaks and fixes

New in Winamp Deskband 1.0 RC1 (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Fixed: number keys on numpad aren't available for hotkeys
  • Fixed: a lot of draw button frame issues
  • Fixed: Hibernation bug (!!!!!!!!!TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
  • Fixed: Visualization repaint bug
  • Fixed: Multiselect for add-files dialog in bookmarks
  • Fixed: Make bookmark-popupmenu color dependent on system colors
  • Fixed: Don't allow same color in tooltipcolor/tooltiptext
  • Fixed: Removed the winamp title completely from the deskband (Kinda useless anyway)
  • Fixed: No button frames -> titlescroller..
  • Fixed: Resolved the IE caching bug (Winamp item not appearing after install)
  • Fixed: GetDeskband.Caption-bug
  • Fixed: Add Files etc. shows wa3 on taskbar while in systray only mode..
  • Fixed: Floating resize bugs
  • Fixed: made deskband 'look better' right after installation
  • Fixed: Visualization repaint bug
  • Fixed: Some issues with the detection of winamp for users who don't have admin priviledges
  • Fixme: painting shadows when titlescroller is not scrolling (unthemed)
  • Fixed: No priority hijack in timerservice
  • Fixed: Some drag 'n drop bugs in bookmarks window
  • Fixed: Some repaint/close issues
  • Fixed: Most of the "Tooltips displaying when the're not supposed to" bugs
  • Fixed: Bug in winamp 2 where plugins were not located correctly when using non default plugin paths
  • Fixed: Floating bugs
  • Fixed: Deskband dissapearing bugs
  • Fixed: Uninstall remove dll/wac in wa-folder
  • Fixed: Winamp 5 showhide window in modernskin
  • Added: [F1] open manual (+ disabled F1 for Hotkeys)
  • Added: Stop playback option to sleeptimer
  • Added: Winamp 5 Support (!!!)
  • Added: DragDrop on deskband to add to bookmarks
  • Added: Bookmark folders
  • Changed: Now storing last tracknumber in the registry instead of 'track.txt'
  • Changed: Made things look a bit better when *not* using XP visual styles
  • Changed: You can now press [Return] to assign a hotkey.
  • Changed: Visconfig->Type (spec/osc) -> Small bands? (Check) + case type of spec -> spec style case osc -> osc style
  • Changed: Made posbar larger and better but possibly uglier..
  • Changed: When launching winamp, the winamp window is now shown minimized

New in Winamp Deskband 0.98a Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Fixed: Appearantly something went wrong during the post-compile process, which disabled the sleeptimer and random playlist generator, this is fixed now

New in Winamp Deskband 0.98 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Installer: Replaced icon with more modern one
  • Installer: Added a configure deskband option
  • Installer: Made it look better (well at least I think so)
  • Added: Full Winamp 3.x integration. (The Winamp 2.x Plugin manager is no longer required!)
  • Added: Visualization (Winamp 2.x like Spectrum analyzer and Oscilliscope)! (Winamp 2.x / 3.x only)
  • Added: Position slider bar!
  • Added: Sliderbar to OSD
  • Changed: Made the bookmarks cache on load (e.g. no waiting for bookmarks menu to popup)
  • Changed: Made tooltips look better when transparent
  • Changed: Made bookmarks menu look like office xp
  • Changed: Reduced thread/resource usage
  • Changed: Updated documentation (complete overhaul)
  • Changed: Made the OSD fade in instead of just appearing
  • Changed: (User request) Made mediaplayer icons look better
  • Changed: (User request) Some typo's in the language files
  • Changed: (User request) Title scrolling no longer scrolls in one direction and is a bit more fluent
  • Changed: (User request) Made the deskband name in the toolbar menu editable
  • Fixed: (User request) OSD on primary monitor
  • Fixed: DeleteFile in WA2 didn't work properly
  • Fixed: Some skin bugs
  • Fixed: Stopped sliderbar from dissappearing when applying config
  • Fixed: Transparency issue in button config
  • Fixed: Disable [F12] key (reserved for debugging)
  • Fixed: TimeDisplay now displays in center of window
  • Fixed: Bug when bookmarks pop-up and no playlists are available.
  • Fixed: Issues in button configuration
  • Fixed: Some bugs when changing themes (WinXP)
  • Tons of other small fixes/changes and tweaks

New in Winamp Deskband 0.97 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Added: Tooltip display!
  • Added: System time display type
  • Added: Random Playlist generator
  • Added: Playlists editor
  • Added: Hibernate/Shutdown/Standby options to sleeptimer
  • Added: Specify buttons size option
  • Added: New custom sounds
  • Added: Link to manual on about page
  • Added: Shutdown,LogOff,StandBy,Hibernate,Reboot
  • Added: Hold down Ctrl when resizing the deskband to allow multiple lines of button (Horizontal only)
  • Added: Make title scroll speed configurable
  • Added: DrawButton frames -> Per button setting
  • Added: Delete current file
  • Changed: Tweaked Buttons tab
  • Changed: Tweaked the hotkeys a bit
  • Changed: Made popup menu play sounds too
  • Changed: Tweaked WMP support some more (should actually work this time :)
  • Changed: Added more support for media keyboard + tweaked shortcut edit box
  • Changed: Various UI tweaks
  • Fixed: Theme LocalizedMessageDlg
  • Fixed: Popupmenus dissapearing on OSD-Hide
  • Fixed: Fail safe language support (Format(languageService['..']) -> Exception
  • Fixed: Deskband crashes when using FastForward / FastRewind via hotkeys for a substantial time
  • Fixed: Don't play mouse down/up sound if in hotkey sound
  • Fixed: Doublebuffer sleeptimer warning window

New in Winamp Deskband 0.96 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Added: Basic support for Window Media Player (Only tested with WMP 8 Build 8.00.00.4477)
  • Added: Full screen button for WMP 8
  • Added: Add Use main volume / Use winamp volume options
  • Added: Mute/Unmute button
  • Added: Added and updated some skins
  • Added: Change media player buttons and toggle media player button
  • Added: Play cd in bookmark menu
  • Added: Load playlist in bookmark menu
  • Added: Some new skins (also messed up some old ones, don't feel like redoing those)
  • Added: Auto Save playlist position for WA3, If launched by the deskband WA3 will now start where you left off
  • Added: Support for multimedia keyboards, (And basically every other key on the keyboard that generates a keystroke)
  • Fixed: Language was only updated in config not in deskband
  • Fixed: Prevented deskband from floating, fixes the accesviolation/no popup bugs
  • Fixed: Updated localization
  • Fixed: Some Access Violation bugs in config
  • Fixed: Redone much of the title scroller code should now work properly under WA3
  • Fixed: WA3 and WA2 Plugin manager detection
  • Changed: Pressing config when config already active brings it to top
  • Changed: Increased title scroll speed
  • Changed: Tweaked "show on inactive" layout
  • Changed: Volume control: seperate buttons for volume up/down / (un)mute
  • Changed: ShowHideWindow now true toggles the window (no more lmb,rmb)
  • Changed: Eject CD-ROM: Click is open [shift] click = close
  • Changed: Use shift as alternate action in both click and hotkey
  • Changed: Tweaked the looks of the bookmark popup

New in Winamp Deskband 0.95 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Changed: Moved the configuration, sleeptimer and warning windows to a seperate .exe, this fixes the WinXP theming issues and it reduces the memory load of the deskband.
  • Changed: Configuration form layout
  • Changed: Improved Winamp3 Support
  • Added: Title scroller
  • Added: Time display
  • Added: Stop (with fade) button
  • Added: AutoSave option (Autosaves your playlist at a specified interval)
  • Added: Support for the Windows-key in HotKeys section
  • Added: [Ctrl] + Next = 10 tracks forward in playlist, [Ctrl] + Previous = 10 track back in playlist
  • Added: "Don't draw button frames"-option so that skin can provide their own button frames
  • Added: Hotkey Sound event to provide feedback when a hotkey is pressed
  • Added: Skin preview in configuration
  • Added: HotKey tab
  • Added: Winamp3 add files dialog
  • Fixed: Winamp3 bookmark support (Add current as bookmark now is functioning)
  • Fixed: The play button in the sounds-section of the configuration wasn't working properly
  • Fixed: Couldn't add bookmarks if the file winamp.bm did not exist
  • Fixed: now retrieving track title using ReadProcessMemory(); much more reliable/faster
  • Removed: Track tooltips (Replaced with title scroller
  • Numerous UI tweaks and speed/memory tweaks

New in Winamp Deskband 0.94 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • FIXED(Hopefully): Applications crashing when displaying the deskband!
  • Changed: Tooltip appearance + Tooltips no longer display track numbers
  • Fixed: Show/Hide window with Winamp3 trayonly now works
  • Fixed: Winamp3: Play bookmarked file now functions better than before but still not completely as it should
  • Fixed: Edit bookmarks under Winamp3 now opens the preferences dlg (edit bookmarks is only one click away)
  • Fixed: Track tooltips no longer appear if a fullscreen app is running (Screensaver / visualization)
  • Fixed: Track tooltips weren't showing up after media player switch (2 -> 3 or 3 -> 2)
  • Numerous small tweaks and fixes

New in Winamp Deskband 0.93 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Added: Runtime Localization support. You can now change the language of the deskband in the preferences windows.
  • Added: Dutch and English language support
  • Added: Language autodetection on first run
  • Added: Clicking the play button while holding down [Ctrl] will restart playback of the current track
  • Changed: Merged volume and seek speed settings

New in Winamp Deskband 0.92 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Fixed: Now doesn't remove files that aren't available on disk (e.g. shoutcast url's) from bookmark list.
  • Fixed: Browse button (Preferences->Sounds) now works correctly. (Preferences window is not longer always on top)
  • Fixed: Hotkeys are now disabled if the preferences window is visible. This enables you to reassign hotkeys to different buttons.
  • Added: Reassign prompt when assigning a hotkey that is already in-use by another button

New in Winamp Deskband 0.91 Beta (Aug 28, 2010)

  • Fixed: Drag and drop in the preferences window on WinXP/Win2000
  • Fixed: Hopefully fixed the Explorer Crashes if 'Display track tooltips' and 'Start playback on launch' enabled-bug
  • Changed: Reworked the Sleeptimer form
  • Changed: Tweaked the Volume/Seek speeds a little
  • Changed: Tweaked the default skins
  • Changed: If the sleeptimer button is visible and active it displays a countdown the last 60 seconds before shutdown
  • Added: Shortcut support for: Show/Hide Window, Volume Up/Down, Seek Forward/Backward
  • Added: Move Up/Down buttons to Preferences window
  • Added: Winamp Deskband now returns focus the window previously focused after a mouse click
  • Various other minor tweaks and fixes